Why you’re getting emails about “Your Beauty and Electronics items”
  • LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    48·
    15 days ago

    Sees headline: is it ai?

    Sees uri: looks like it.

    Reads article: what can I say but yikes.

    In May Google unveiled a shopping cart that works across various merchants that would eventually be integrated into Gmail as well,

    No thanks, sounds like a privacy nightmare. Not to mention probably pushing for more consumerism, which no thanks to that too.

    Amazon has also been plugging away at AI-powered shopping features of its own, like price tracking and automatic purchasing. Alexa for Shopping is built into the Amazon app, and shoppers can query the chatbot for product recommendations and comparisons

    Yes, let’s let the hallucinating plagiarism machine buy stuff and recommend stuff and track pricing data. Oh, did I mention the planet killing chat box is owned by Amazon, the place that makes money on selling you shit? what can possibly go wrong??

    • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      15 days ago

      Let alone the predictive pricing. "Oh you usually run out of shampoo mid month? Well guess what, shampoo prices double on the 10th and just happen to drop back down on the 25th. "

    • atrielienz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      15 days ago

      Google has had a feature variant of this since at least 2014. Back when Google Now was a thing (before LLM’s took off) there was a significant outcry about privacy because Google was scraping your emails to tell you when your packages shipped and when they would be delivered, to remind you when your flight was and what time you needed to leave for the airport and if your gate changed etc.

      The thing that bothers me about this is, at that point it could be a opt in thing (on the email providers side), and it shouldn’t be up to Amazon to use “customer protection” as a reason to enshittify their services so that they can continue to be anti-competitive.

      • Natanael@infosec.pubEnglish
        2·
        14 days ago

        “the user is signing in with an email address from a company whose terms they accepted - let’s get in the way and tell the user only we get to do those things”

    • bedwyr@piefed.caEnglish
      2·
      14 days ago

      AI won’t help for pricing anyway because the company actively tries to get you to buy the less quality more expensive products, as outlined in a John Oliver episode.